Never again shall I stray from my proper work--the one in which that danger is the reverse of one and becomes a rightness and a beauty.
Llewellyn Davis), has objected to this passage, saying, "Surely the rightness or wrongness of saving a man from drowning does depend very much upon the motive with which it is done.
Mrs. Hunt's a living confession of faith in the absolute rightness of the right people, and a living rebuke to the incurable wrongness of the wrong!
There is an unerring rightness both in rude Nature and in garden grace, in the chartered liberty of the one, and the unchartered freedom of unadjusted things in the other.
There was no doubt as to the rightness of The Law, no reluctance to submit to its yoke, no disposition to ignore its requirements.
Whatever theories we may have about the consecration of a building--and surely every building that is put to a sacred use is in a sense a sacred building--there can be no question as to the rightness of dedication.
Are numbers essential to the rightness of a cause?
According to this view rightness or wrongness cannot be predicated of the passions themselves, but should rather be applied to the use of them, and to the way they are proportioned to each other and to circumstances.
Though there is a superficial judgment of this kind, yet when the matter comes to be looked into, the more general consent seems to be that the rightness or wrongness is in the motive.
The ancients had all that genius could do for man; but it was a matter, he said, not of the strength and fleetness of the running, but of the rightness of the way.
Nay it doth more fully lay open that the question between me and the ancients is not of the virtue of the race, but of the rightness of the way.
Ridge folk as a whole have set their compass and steer the course of their lives with unconscious philosophy, and yet a profound conviction as to the rightness of what they are doing.
It sets a standard for other human things, showing that absolute rightness is not out of reach.
And in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, for example, instead of a sparse handful of persons disturbingly conscious of being in a minority, as now, a magnificent and proud majority had collected, deeply aware of its rightness and its correctness.
It was remorse for having quarrelled, for having lacked faith in the supreme rightness of the high adventure.
But if rightness is abstinence from evil, then a lamp-post must always be better than a man, for it justly can lay claim to all the negative virtues.
As the things about him come to include God and heaven and things unseen so will his search for rightness become wider and deeper and more spiritual.
To cease to strive for rightness is to cease to live.
The passion for absolute truth and rightness is one of the noblest that can spring up in any breast; it is a ripe fruit of religion.
He would rather be the faltering pursuer of actual rightness than the possessor of a hypothetical, ascribed perfection.
Whatever institution has existed or exists, however irrational, however preposterous, has, by virtue of its contact with individualities, an effect of realness andrightness no untried thing may share.
Yet I brought away an impression that here was a rightness that earthly economists have failed to grasp.
He was filled with a sense of rightness and certainty, feeling himself absorbed in an awesome Presence that would give him flawless guidance.
As she continued, offering her prayers and her pain to the figure on the crucifix, the ceremony seemed to take on a life of its own, filling her with a sense of rightness and peace.
They offer no single panacea for all economic troubles, and lay down no absolute and unchallengeable dogma concerning the rightness or wrongness of public or private ownership.
Cheng ming is the rightnessof names: li, the appropriateness of relationships.
Jimsy, isn't it wonderful--the all-rightness of everything?
You weren't born five years before me because then it would have spoiled everything," said Honor, securely confident of the eternal rightness of the scheme of things.
This is the work of the right imagination; and towards this work every imagination, in proportion to the rightness that is in it, will tend.
For there undoubtedly exists a rough physical standard of rightness in drawing, any violent deviations from which, even at the dictates of emotional expression, is productive of the grotesque.
And when this balance is kept there is a rightnessabout it that is instinctively felt.
I insist only on therightness of my aesthetic hypothesis.
If my theory be correct, rightness of form is invariably a consequence of rightness of emotion.
If this were so, it would be permissible to inquire whether it was the forms themselves or our perception of their rightness and necessity that caused aesthetic emotion.
My view of the rise, decline and fall of art in Christendom is based entirely on a series of independent aesthetic judgments in the rightness of which I have the arrogance to feel considerable confidence.
We seem to have recognised intellectually the rightness of its forms without staying to fix our attention, and collect, as it were, their emotional significance.
Before we feel an aesthetic emotion for a combination of forms, do we not perceive intellectually the rightness and necessity of the combination?
Measure your crooked lives by the perfect rightness of Christ's.
I admit that if subjective rightnessor goodness of Will is affirmed to be the Ultimate Good, the affirmation does not exactly involve the logical difficulty that I have been urging.
Thus God is not conceived as performing duties, though He is conceived as realising Justice and other kinds of Rightness in action.
In the first place, we must carefully distinguish between the recognition of goodness in dispositions, and the recognition of rightness in conduct.
